Below you will find our lists of materials available in the Genealogy Collection at the Roane County Public Library. These are reference materials that can be accessed by visiting our library. Contact us at 304-927-1130 for more information.
ROANE COUNTY LIBRARY’S LOAN POLICY
“We do not loan the original genealogy documents to individuals or other libraries. Our genealogy room is open to the public for research. A copy machine is available with a fee of .10 cents per page “
Roane County Historical Society
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COLLECTION BY COUNTY
Barbour
Barbour County – formed in 1843 from Randolph, Harrison, and Lewis Counties
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1892-1935
General History
Western Waters: Early Settlers of Eastern Barbour County
Barbour County, WV Hardesty’s Biographical Atlas, 1882, Volume 4
Braxton
Braxton County – formed in 1836 from Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas Counties
Census Records
1850, 1860, and 1870 census
1900 census (Kanawha, Otter, Salt Lick, Birch, Holly Districts)
Marriage Records
1836-1875
1876-1932
Death Records
1831-1900
1853-1880
1901-1920
Cemeteries
Braxton County Cemeteries, Volume 1
Cabell
Cabell County – formed in 1809 from Kanawha County
Marriage Records
1851-1899
General History
Cabell County West Virginia Heritage
Calhoun
Calhoun County – formed in 1856 from Gilmer County
Census Records
1860
1870
1910 (Sheridan, Sherman, and Washington District)
Marriage Records
1856-1927
Cemeteries
Cemeteries in Calhoun County
Index of Calhoun County Cemeteries
General History
History of Calhoun County, 1989
Lines and Links, 1976-1979
Lines and Links, 1980-1983
Lines and Links, 1984-1987
Clay
Clay County – formed in 1858 from Braxton, Kanawha, and Nicholas Counties
Census Records
1860
1870
1900
1920
Marriage Records
1858-1958
Index of Clay County Marriages, 1858-1958
Cemeteries
Clay County Cemeteries
General History
History of Clay County
Families in 1850 Clay, Nicolas & Webster Counties, WV
The Claybourne Pierson Papers
Doddridge
Doddridge County – formed in 1845 from Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie, and Lewis Counites
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
1900
1910
Marriage Records
1846-1937
1845-1884
Death Records
1853-1969
Cemeteries
West Union, WV Cemeteries
General History
History of Nutter’s Fork Community, Doddridge County, WV
Fayette
Fayette County – formed in 1831 from Greenbrier, Kanawha, Nicholas, and Logan Counties
General History
History of Fayette County, WV, 1993
Gilmer
Gilmer County – formed in 1843 from Lewis and Kanawha Counties
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
Death Records
1853-1880
Cemeteries
Gilmer County, WV Cemeteries Volume 1 & 2
General History
Gilmer County, WV History 1845-1989
History of Sinking Creek Community
Grant
Grant County – formed in 1866 from Hardy County
Census Records
1900
Greenbrier
Greenbrier County – formed in 1778 from Montgomery and Botetourt Counties, Virginia
Census Records
1820 Census (Greenbrier County, VA)
General History
History of Greenbrier County, 1917
Greenbrier County, WV Hardesty’s Biographical Atlas, 1882
Hampshire
Hampshire County – formed in 1754 from Frederick and Augusta Counties, Virginia
Census Records
1850 Census
Hardy
Hardy County – formed in 1786 from Hampshire County
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
Harrison
Harrison County – formed in 1784 from Monongalia County
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
1900
Marriage Records
1785-1894
Cemeteries
Simpson District, Harrison County Cemeteries
Jackson
Jackson County – formed in 1831 from Kanawha, Wood, and Mason Counties
Census Records
1850
1860
1900
Birth Records
1853-1950 A-B
1853-1950 C
1853-1950 D-G
1853-1950 H-J
1853-1950 K-L
1853-1950 M-O
1853-1950 P-R
1853-1950 Sa-Sm
1853-1950 Sm-V
1853-1950 W-Z
Marriage Records
1831-1879
1901-1925
1926-1939
1940-1950
Death Records
1856-1949 A-E
1856-1949 F-M
1856-1949 N-Z
Cemeteries
List of Cemeteries in Jackson County
Jackson County, WV Grant District Cemeteries
Ravenswood Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions May 1984
Cemeteries of Jackson and Roane Counties
Some Early City Burying Grounds – Jackson, Roane, Wood, and Wirt Counties
General History
Early Settlers and Their Contribution to Jackson County and its county seat, Ripley, WV
A Dictionary of Jackson County Place Names
Jackson County, WV Past and Present 1990
Kanawha
Kanawha County – formed in 1788 from Greenbrier and Montgomery County, WV
Census Records
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
1860
1870
1880 Big Sandy District
1910
1920
Marriage Records
1869-1884
1885-1898
Cemeteries
101 Kanawha County, WV Cemeteries
Kanawha County Cemeteries, volume 3
Kanawha County Cemeteries, volume 4
Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston, WV, volume 1 A-E
Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston, WV, volume 2 F-K
Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleson, WV, volume 3 L-R
Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston, WV, volume 4 S-Z
Kanawha Valley Cemeteries, volume 2 : Some Cemeteries from Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason, and Putnam Counties
General History
Kanawha County, WV Court Records 1789-1803
History of Charleston and Kanawha County, WV and Representative Citizens
Index to W.S. Laidley’s History of Charleston and Kanawha County, WV
Kanawha County, VA (now WV) 1806-1809 Tax List
Kanawha County, VA (now WV) 1840 Tax List
History of the Great Kanawha Valley
Ancestors of Kanawha Valley Genealogy Society members, volume 1
Ancestors of Kanawha Valley Genealogy Society members, volume 2
Ancestors of Kanawha Valley Genealogy Society members, volume 3
The Kanawha Valley 1872 : Resources, Developments, and Special Business Directory
Lewis
Lewis County -formed in 1860 from Harrison County
Census records
1850
1860
1870
Birth Records
1853-1886
1869-1877
Marriage Records
Marriage bonds 1816-1865 Femals
Marriage bonds 1816-1865 Males
1817-1880
1822-1899
1881-1937
Death Records
1853-1868
1887-1905
1906-1929
1939-1940
Cemeteries
Cemeteries of Lewis County and Adjacent Counties, volumes 1-9
General History
Lewis County Obituaries, Marriages and Births (in the Weston Independent)
1942-1943
1944-1945
1948-1949
Lewis county in the Civil War 1961-1865
History of Walkersville Community
Hardesty’s West Virginia Counties : Mason, Pleasants, Lewis and Roane
Lewis County, WV: Her People and Places
Marion
Marion County – formed in 1842 from Monongalia and Harrison Counties
Marriage Records
1842-1889
Marshall
Marshall County – formed in 1835 from Ohio County
Marriage Records
1835-1889
Mason
Mason County – formed in 1804 from Kanawha County
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1806-1870
1850-1861
Monongalia
Monongalia County – formed in 1776 from a district of West Augusta, VA
Census Records
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1841-1861
Morgan
Morgan County – formed in 1820 from Hampshire and Berkeley Counties
Census Records
1870
Nicholas
Nicholas County – formed in 1818 from Kanawha, Greenbrier, and Randolph Counties
Census Records
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1817-1903
1903-1933
General History
Families of Nicholas County, WV which includes :
1809 tax list of the region
1820 federal census record
1830 federal census record
1840 federal census record
Index to 1840 federal Census
Index History of the County
Pendleton
Pendleton County – formed in 1788 from Augusta and Rockingham Counties, VA and Hardy County, WV
Census Records
1810
1850
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1791-1853
Pleasants
Pleasants County – formed in 1851 from Wood, Tyler, and Ritchie Counites
Census Records
1860
1870
1900
Marriage Records
1853-1899
Pocahontas
Pocahontas County– formed in 1821 from Bath County, VA, Pendleton and Randolph Counties, WV
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
Preston
Preston County – formed in 1818 from Monongalia County
Census Records
1850
Putnam
Putnam County – formed in 1848 from Kanawha, Mason, and Cabell Counties
Census Records
1870
General History
Burials by Allen Funeral Home, Putnam County, WV 1930-1999
Randolph
Randolph County – formed in 1787 from Harrison County
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1787-1923
Ritchie
Ritchie County – formed in 1843 from Wood, Harrison, and Lewis Counties
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
1900
1910
1920
Marriage Records
1843-1915
1856-1919
General History
Index to Minnie Kendall Lowther’s History of Ritchie Counties 1985
Roane
Roane County – formed in 1856 from Kanawha, Jackson, and Gilmer Counties
Census Records
1860
1870
1880
1900 – Curtis, Geary, Harper, Reedy Districts
1900 – Smithfield, Spencer, Walton Districts
1910
Birth Records
1856-1960
Marriage Records
1856-1899
1856-1919
Death Records
1856-1900
1901-1955
1956-1967
Cemeteries
Cemeteries of Roane County, WV, volumes 1-4
Cemeteries in Walton District
Cemeteries in Harper District
Roane County, WV Cemeteries – Curtis and Geary Districts
Roane County, WV Cemeteries – Spencer District
Roane County, WV Cemeteries – Reedy District
Roane County, WV Cemeteries – Reedy and Smithfield Districts
Roane County, WV Cemeteries, 1983
Roane County, WV Cemeteries, 1991
Cemeteries of Geary District compiled by the WPA (Works Progress Administrations) 1938-1940
Cemeteries of Smithfield District compiled by the WPA, 1938-1940
General History
History of the Harper District
Roane County Blue and Gray : an Index of Soldiers of the Civil War, including Union, Confederate, and Home Guard
History of Roane, County, 1774-1926 by William H. Bishop
Index to History of Roane County 1774-1926
Roane County in World War II
Pioneers in Roane County, WV by Hohn A. House
Mostly Reedy Obituaries
Death Related Newspaper Articles from the Weekly Bulletin, Roane County, WV 1898-1902
Death Related Newspaper Articles from the Weekly Bulletin, Roane County, WV 1882-1897
Ancestor Charts of the Roane County Historical Society, volumes 1-2
Roane County Journal, volumes 1-6
Taylor
Taylor County – formed in 1844 from Harrison, Barbour, and Marion Counties
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1853-1905
Tucker
Tucker County – formed in 1856 from Randolph County
Census Records
1860
Tyler
Tyler County – formed in 1814 from Ohio County
Marriage Records
1891-1932
Upshur
Upshur County – formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis Counites
Census Records
1860
1870
Marriage Records
1851-1896
Webster
Webster County – formed in 1860 from Nicholas, Braxton, and Randolph Counties
Census Records
1870
Wetzel
Wetzel County – formed in 1846 from Tyler County
Death Records
1854-1895
General History
Wetzel County, WV Obituaries, volume 1 revised 1993
Wirt
Wirt County – formed in 1848 from Wood and Jackson Counties
Census Records
1850
1860
1870
1900
1910
Marriage Records
1848-1854
1854-1899
1900-1970
Early Wirt County Marriages
Cemeteries
Wirt County Cemeteries by Mitchell
General History
Wirt County, WV Hardesty’s 1882
History of Wirt County , WV by Mitchell
The History of Wirt County, WV 1981 (Depue Family)
A Pioneer History of Wirt County by Sewell
Wood
Wood County – formed in 1798 from Harrison County
Census Records 1820
1830
1840
1860
1870
1920
Marriage Records
1880-1925
Cemeteries
Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Parkersburg, WV
IOOF Cemetery, Parkersburg, WV
Wood County Cemetery Inscriptions, volume 1
General History
Wood County Post Offices, 1850-1971
History of the City of Parkersburg
History of Mineral Weels Community, Wood Couinty, WV, 1938
History of Leachtown, WV 1989
History of Lee Creek Community, Wood County, WV, 1926
History of Locust Valley Community, 1930
Southern Sympathizers: Wood County Confederate Soldiers
Pioneers and Early Incidents of Wood County, WV
Genealogical Sketches of Washington, Wood County, WV 1964
INDIVIDUAL FAMILY HISTORIES
A
B
Bailey Family
Bailey, Lockhard, Whiting, and Riddle Families
Barnes Family in WV
Board Family
Board-Wolfe: Lake Board-Mary Wolfe
Boggs Family 1550-1995
Boone Family of Kentucky
The Boone-Bryan Family
A New Light on Daniel Boone’s Ancestry
Booth Family
The Boothes Since the Civil War
Brake Family of WV
Burdette Family History
Burgess 1994
The Genealogical Gatherings of the Burrows and Fredericks Family
Michael Bush
Butcher Family
The House of James Madison Butcher and Mary Estaline Looney Butcher
C
Cain Family
Carpenter and Related Family Historical Journal, volume 1, no. 1-9
Carpenter and Related Family Historical Journal, volume 2, no. 1-7
Carpenter and Related Family Historical Journal, volume 3, no. 1-4, 6, 8
Carpenter and Related Family Historical Journal, volume 4, no. 3, 6
Carpenter and Related Family Historical Journal, volume 5, no. 2-8
Carpenter Family History
Chancy Family
The Circle (Zirkle) Family
Clendinen Family
Cook Family
The Descendants of Jacques Cossart, ca. 1955
Cottrell Family
Counts Family Fights Back
Crislip Family Index
D
Family History of Flora May Davisson of Lost Creek, WV
Dearman 1996
Elder Edmund Dennison
Recollections of a Lifetime by Col. D. S. DeWees
Drake Family
E
Epling Family Archives
F
Diary of Henrietta Sara Fitzhugh, 1789-1879
William Fleming Family
Excerpts from the William Fleming Family
G
Some Descendants of Uriah and Susannah Gandy/Gandee
Gibson Family History
Goff Family
Gough Family Pictures
H
Hall Family
A History of Elisha Hall, 1736-1821
Recollections and Reflections of Molly Hansford 1828-1900
One Line of the Descendants of Jacob Harmon of Virginia, ca. 1693-1776, including Peter Harmon, 1173-ca. 1789, George Charles Harmon, 1761-1837, William Harmon, 1793-1881, George W. Harmon, 1825-1896, William Jackson Harmon, 1854-1942
Harper Family History
History of the Hennen Family
Hickman Family Tree
Hodam History
Hoff: The Descendants of John Hoff
Hudkins History
The Descendants of William Hughes
The History and Descendants of William Levi Hunt and His Wife, Martha Jackson
Hunts, Taylors, and Related Family Obituaries
I
J
Justis, Justus, Justice (Families) for All
Justice Family History
K
The Descendants of John Keiser, ca. 1770
The King Family
Knott Family History
Knott Reminiscences: Early History of Nevada in the 1850’s
Knotts Family History : James Abaslom Knotts, Jr.
Knotts Family History, section 1
Knotts Family History, volume 1-6
Knotts Family History, volume 8, sections 1 and 2
L
Lee Family
Looney Family
The Descendants of Patrick Loughry, ca. 1779
Lowe/Workman Family Connection
M
Martin Family of America
McGlothlin Family History
McIntosh Home and Memories
The Family Descendants of Preston Grigsby Miller and Martha Ellen Wade Miller
N
O
P
A short History of the Pell Family
The Slaughter of the Pfost-Greene Family of Jackson County, WV
Index History of the Porter Family Of NJ and WV
Q
R
Charles Rogers Descendants and Related Families
S
The Descendants of James Schoolcraft
The Shamblin Family of WV
Somervill Family
Springston Family
St. John and Harries
Straight Coat of Arms
Stump
Stump Family, Books 1, 2, 3
Stutler, Hughes, Jackson Pioneer Families of West Virginia
T
A Genealogy History of the Talbot, Hall, Reger, and Martin Families of Barbour County
John H. Tawney, 1848-1916
U
V
Descendants of Jane V. Vail
Vandale Family History
Vandale Newsletters
W
Wagner/Wagoner/Waggoners
Bits and Pieces : Warren and Eaton Families
Weaver/Nicholson Families
Some Descendants of Anthony West of Accomack, Virginia
Descendants of Thomas West, Clay County, WV
Westfall Family
Some Wiseman Connections
